People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — His Valet. [ARTICLE]

His Valet.

A young joutherner who recently visited New York brought with him as his valet a huge negro, six feet four inches in height and of the richest mahogany in color. The black was gigantic, though beautifully proportioned, silent, imperturbable and wellbred. His manners and decorum would put to shame many a “Jeemes,” whose whiskers are generally his only stock in trade. “Oh, I take Norfolk —that’s his name—with me sometimes when I go away from home,” said the southerner. “He saves me a lot of trouble, and you wouldn’t believe what a splendid servant he is. Although he is a big fellow he is as deft and clever about my room or in waiting at table as any. French valet. He can make a mint julip that would open your eyes. With horses he is excellent. Then he is such a splendid looking fellow. Notice his beard. It is long and forked and he plaits it up on jveek days, to let it flow in all its glossy richness on Sunday. My grandfather bought him when a boy and he was brought up in our family. Never left us when he was set free. He believes in fetiches, ‘conjuring,’ and so forth. Most of them do that, however, down my way.”—N. Y. Advertiser.